verbal经典题库42详解(2)

9. Whilst having similar effects on employees, there tend to be major difference between a

merger and an acquisition. In an acquisition, power is substantially assumed by the new

parent company. Change is often swift and brutal as the acquirer imposes its own control systems and financial restraints. Parties to a merger are likely to be evenly matched in terms of size, and the power and cultural dynamics of the combination are more ambiguous, integration is a more drawn out process.

During an acquisition, there is often more overt conflict and resistance and a sense of powerlessness. In mergers, because of the prolonged period between the initial announcement and full integration, uncertainty and anxiety continue for a much longer time

as the organization remains in a state of limbo. There tends to be a major power difference between parties in an acquisition. T

Mergers and acquisition tend to have distinctly（明显的） different impacts on employees. F

Mergers yield a shorter period of anxiety and uncertainty amongst employees. F

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13. Management is, in effect, the catalyst that is essential for converting the resources and raw material inputs of the operation into valued outputs and, in the process, ensuring that stakeholder needs are satisfied. Managers represent the critical factor, which economists refer to as “enterprise”, without which the other factors (land, labor and capital) cannot function. Managers are effectively the custodians of the organization’s resource, responsible for deciding what the resources should be used for, how best to use them, and to which customers the outputs should be targeted. Stakeholder needs are best served through the creation of valued outputs. C Management has at least two major but different responsibilities. T Managers must decide how best to handle all the resources at their disposal(有处理权). T There is no doubt that vegetarian food can be healthier than a traditional diet – indeed, research has demonstrated that vegetarians are less likely to suffer from heart disease and obesity than those who eat meat. One long-standing concern about a vegetarian lifestyle is the risk of failing to take in enough protein. However, historical calculations as to the amount of protein needed for a healthy lifestyle have recently been shown to overestimate the quantities needed, and if vegetarian select their food carefully they should be able to meet their protein needs. A balanced diet is more likely to promote health than any particular food or food group in isolation. C Too much protein in the diet can lead to heart disease. C Over time the recommendations as to what constitutes a healthy balanced diet have changed. C Water, the most common liquid used for cleaning, has a property called surface tension. Molecules in the body of the water are surrounded by other molecules, but at the surface a “tension” is created as molecules are only surrounded by other molecules on the waterside. This tension inhibits(抑制) the cleaning process, as it slows the wetting of surface due to tension causing the water to bead up. This is where water droplets hold their shape and do not spread. For effective cleaning to take place “surface tension” must be reduced so that water can spread. Surface-active agents, or surfactants, are chemicals, which are able to do this effectively. Surface-active agents, or surfactants, are only used for cleaning. C Water is the only known liquid used for cleaning. F If surfactant chemicals are added to water when cleaning a surface, surface tension will occur. F The molecules on the waterside hinder（阻碍） the cleaning process. T The biggest risk facing the world’s insurance companies is possibly the rapid change now

taking place within their own ranks. Sluggish growth in core markets and intense price

competition, coupled with shifting patterns of customer demand and the rising cost of losses, are threatening to overwhelm those too slow to react.

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16. Insurance companies are experiencing a boom in their core markets. C Insurance companies are competing to provide best prices to customers. T Insurance companies are coping well with increased price competition and rising losses. F Short-sightedness is to a large extent inherited, its incidence varies from one family to another. The reason behind the link between the common incidence of short-sightedness and high intelligence is unclear. Previous generations thought that eyes could become strained by years spent poring over books, but a few decades ago the popular medical view was that short-sighted people gravitated towards the library because they found it hard to excel at sports. Recently there has been partial support for a theory that high intelligence and short-sightedness may, in fact, be part of a genetic package. The genetic link between intelligence and short-sightedness has recently been disproven. F People from all families stand at an equal chance of being short-sighted. F Intelligence is to a large extent inherited. C The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is the afterglow from the Big Bang, and weak as it may be today, these primeval microwaves hold valuable information about fundamental properties of the early universe. Slight differences, or anisotropies, in the brightness and polarization of the CMB reveal clues about the nature of the primeval plasma: that the discrepancies exist at all shows that the plasma was not perfectly uniform. The variations in the brightness seen in the CMB reflect differences in the density of the primordial plasma, whereas the anisotropic polarization reveals information about the dynamics of the early universe, such as the movement of material and the number of gravitational waves. The CMB, however, is not the only source of polarized microwaves and the cosmological polarization must thus be measure …… 此处隐藏：8039字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……